Also consider going to a Radio Shack and look around for some potentiometers, buttons, sensors etc. You can get some simple 8 ohm speakers to play around. With these small bit and pieces of components you can go through some more of the tutorials on the Arduino or the Ada site.

Design this organism within a consistent scenario that includes its relationship to its environment and reactions to inputs of the user. User (or observer) can both provoke a behaviour or transform its habitat.

Pictorial quality or more abstract representation of this organism is up to you. Both fine as long as it is consistent with the overall scenario.

Refer to tutorials on the previous posts for various input options and programming samples.

War, conflict, trauma, memory, and communication in the public sphere are some of the major themes of an oeuvre that spans four decades. His practice, known as Interrogative Design, combines art and technology as a critical design practice in order to highlight marginal social communities and add legitimacy to cultural issues that are often given little design attention.